It is Human nature to cast judgment onto other humans with no intent other than to raise your own self-esteem. As human nature tells us to do, we judge people based on their appearance, their job or social status, or what we have heard about them from other people. The Scarlet Letter,written in the era of the Dark Romantics, by Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the story of two lovers, both going through different acts of punishment for their sin of adultery. This demonstrates how most judgment is only externally based, formed around previous knowledge or social status, rather than based on internal character and actions. The most obvious example is of characters Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. While they both committed the same crime, one as
